“Kind of like a wingnut circle jerk.”
That is the image that comes to mind everytime I hear some dittoheads I know talking about the days bile they heard Rush spew.

When The Market becomes a rigged casino, one can be assured that the looters are running out of assets to steal.

$40 million here, $40 million there, pretty soon you are talking real money.

The banks are going to pay whatever it takes to hide the massive fraud that took place in securitizing mortgages. All the nasty secrets will be hidden under settlements with state AGs one by one. We are not just talking the fraud involved in selling the mortgages and then foreclosing by means fair and foul. We are talking about the fraud and fee avoidance via MERS. Nobody needs to see the same mortages sold to multiple buyers via CDOs, synthetic CDOs and all the other toxic sludge the banksters conjured out of thin air.

They will settle with the Ags to avoid tumultuous outcry and jail terms if their perfidy were to come to light.

This is all part of the Right’s plan to destroy government’s ability to act on behalf of We The People. What passes for today’s Republicans hope that people will decide that the alternative to bad government is no government. If people do not have faith in our institutions, if the poisonous Limbaugh style cynicism holds sway, then our Republic is dead. People stop voting, people stop participating, people stop making their voices heard, people stop believing they can make a difference. And into this power vacuum the plutocracy and corporatists tighten their grip on the nation’s wealth and levers of power.

They do all this for the same reason they are hell-bent on destroying labor unions: they do not want democracy or the ability of people to collectively decide their futures. Division, dissolution, and destruction. It is nihilistic worldview that will destroy the village in order to loot it.

Yes, it would. Some banks more than others initially, but it would cascade. How much are these banks holding in credit default swaps? The exposure here is not public and could be staggering.

Actually it is run by a criminal sydicate that knows exactly what it is doing. There is still wealth to be looted so we can’t have regulations getting in the way quite yet.

In Europe as in the US, there will be all the money that is necessary to make the banks whole on the reckless loans they made to Greece, et al. They will then foreclose on those countries and loot their water systems, roads, health systems, and cultural treasures just because they can. When the big banks run the central banks, what other outcome can be expected?

Iceland’s people stood up and told the banks to go f**k themselves. That is a precedent that banks cannot allow to be repeated, so all the kabuki in the Eurozone right now is just to confuse people as to the real issues and those that are really responsible for the problem.

Oh geez….Beck is drawing lines on this chalkboard again.

It was tried in 2004. 92% of the repatriated money went to dividend increases, executive bonuses, mergers and acquisitions, and stock buy backs. The incentive was established for corporatations to turn around and stash more money offshore and wait for the opportune time for another “one time” tax holiday to be granted. Anyone see how this turns out in the future?

In the era of corporate personhood, I guess this constitutes a murder/suicide to cover everyone’s tracks. This is money laundering straight up. What is to stop a foreign corporation, Saudi prince, or another government from hiding their contributions this way?

I am sure that Rahm will find us all a nice free speech zone out on a raft in the middle of Lake Michigan. It will then be convenient for him to just sink the raft and send all of us “f**king retards” to sleep with the fishes.

Corporations + Government = Fascism

“Look” weak? ROTFLMAO Weak is as weak does.

Hurray! My television miraculously survived the claptrap that was just broadcast on all networks. Of course, moving all easily throwable objects out of reach helped.

Quick…Anyone remember one line from either of those pitiful exhibitions? Me neither.

Bipartisanship: AKA Grover Norquist’s date rape. And I can guarantee that Grover fantasizes himself as the rapist, not the victim.

How about option #4: Veto a short term extension (that would only give us Fabricated Crisis II and another hostage note from Boehner in six months) and THEN invoke the 14th Amendment prohibition on defaulting on our debt.

Did our President tell them again “you progressives” just don’t get it?

The summary has a lot of hand waving and procedural constraints that leaves room for details that could have horrendous consequences. I won’t say “unintended consequences” because I suspect they are intended and just need to be obfuscated now to prevent citizens from understanding the results at this late hour in the negotiations. The Gang of Six is using the “crisis” to do what plutocrats always attempt. Three tax brackets topping out at 29%? Really?